[music] Motion carried 70. All right, Holly. Organizational business. >> Absolutely. So, this evening we have a pair of presentations. One to give you a review and an update on the work that all of our fine colleagues have been doing here in the port and then we'll follow that with a budget presentation as well. This is for our preliminary levy and budget approval. And so, um, Mark, would you mind, um, advancing the slides? We're going to talk about a 2026 midyear update and then a 2027 preview from each of our work areas in the Port Authority. Next slide, please. Thank you. So our agenda for this presentation is I'm sorry a line broke here but we're going to go over the mission again just to review it. This is work we did together. Then we'll have Waran Artan talking about workforce development, Barb Wolf business assistance, Alejandra Pelanka creative placemaking, Kevin Kase, real estate and development. And then I will quickly talk about administration. Just to keep the program moving, I'll ask that you hold your questions until the end. We'll let everyone get through their presentations. So, just jot them down as we go. Um, a reminder of the port's mission. This is work we all did together over the last year and a half. Our new mission is the Port Authority cultivates community prosperity and quality development through bold vision and responsible public investments. We contribute to the growth and success of Bloomington's inclusive and resilient economy. So, I invite you to keep that in mind as we go through our presentations of what we've been working on. And we do this through our four work areas of business assistance, creative placemaking, workforce development, and real estate and development. >> Welcome Waran. >> Thank you. Good afternoon everyone. Uh my name is Waran. I am the workforce development program coordinator with the port authority and I will be presenting on that section today. I will specifically be talking about the Blooming Bloomington internship program. As you all know, the program strives to create a more accessible workforce here in the city of Bloomington by matching young people between between the ages of 16 and 24 um with our local employers and those employers include both city uh departments as well as external partners. Um so the program is four years old. It kicked off in 2023. Um, we had 12 interns that year. Um, and about 32 applicants. Um, and it grew over the years. Um, as you can see, last year was our largest pool. Um, and this year we had 23 um, intern um, intern spots or interns. Um, and we had about 140 applications. So, not only is the pool of interns growing, but also the applicant pool is growing. Um, and I do want to acknowledge that there's a bit of a dip between last year and this year. One of our employers who took five interns last year had a staff change. So, mainly that is due to the um decrease in interns there. Um, and I also added a bit of a timeline. So, we kick off around late summer, early fall with employer recruitment, reaching out to our local um, companies and organizations. And then intern recruitment kicks off in January of every year. Um and also in that around that same time we have get ready training. So we do a professional development training that is available both online and in person. Um that way the interns are ready coming into our interviews but they also if they don't make it into the program they have that professional development training with them that talks about you know workplace um etiquette um and expectations resume building and a little bit of like interviewing. And then obviously the summer starting end of May until August we have our internship program and I will go a little bit more about that. Next slide or maybe I can use the clicker. Okay, perfect. Oh, sorry. Oh, let's see. There we go. All right. So, this year I wanted to highlight some of our external partners. Uh, all of them are listed here. We had nine external companies that partnered with us. Um, Bloomington, Minnesota Travel and Tourism, Lark and Hoffman, uh, Walster Automotive Group, and Wilderness Inquirer are all returning employers. Um, and everyone else new. So, I just wanted, um, to acknowledge, um, our gratitude for their partnership. And if you see them around, tell them thank you for investing in our young people in Bloomington. All right. And then in addition to interns um participating at their workplace and contributing to their um assigned teams uh assigned to locations and departments. They also participate in um leadership development sessions. Um these sessions cover Excel training specifically in the first session to make sure if a young person is assigned a task that has to do with Excel they know their basics um and how to do that. that was actually that actually came out of feedback that we received from supervisors from previous years. Um we also do financial literacy um in partnership with the Sterns bank. Um they come for about two hours um in one of the sessions and go over anything from budgeting to saving um as this is the first internship or professional job for a lot of young people. So we want them to also be financially responsible as they're entering the workforce. And then we do resume and LinkedIn. Um and this year that was um covered by um Bloomington, the Bloomington Career Force uh for one of our sessions for our young adults um and for our high school um session hired um which is a nonprofit organization here in Bloomington. They covered the f um the resume and LinkedIn session. And then we also have a public speaking session. Um if you all know Siri from our Bloomington um center for the arts um she has um background in public speaking and performance. So she does um our session on public speaking. Um and then we do other things like professional communication for our high school. >> Our high school high school >> sorry I don't I don't know what's going on there. Uh for our high school sessions we uh we do professional communication both email um and like speaking on the phone and those sorts of things. time management and then conducting informational interviews. So I actually reached out to city staff at the beginning of the summer and asked if folks wanted to do if staff were open to doing information interviews with our interns and about 40 or so I want to say 45 to be exact of staff signed up to doformational interviews with our interns. So they just sign up into a spreadsheet. I share that with the interns and the interns reach out and not to put you on the spot but I think our own city manager um signed up to be one of the information interviewers or interview to be like be on the information interviews. Um yeah and then I also do want to acknowledge um other partnerships um include our own city departments. So like for example, assessing did our um Excel training uh one of our staff um human resources came to one of the sessions to go over available um career um tracks within the city of Bloomington. Um we had poor staff um as well as um staff from our office of equity, inclusion and workplace culture come to hear um the public um the internist to get to practice their public speaking. They do their elevator pitch at the last session. So staff from our own departments came to give them feedback. Um and then we also had a career panel for one of the sessions and staff from Toro, Tunheim, Normandell, our own planning um division, finance and our office of equity inclusion and workplace culture um where amongst them. Oh, sorry. I keep forgetting that I have the clear. All right. And then I just wanted to highlight some uh photos. So, we also have events throughout the summer. One of our first events was Bloomington Connected uh which was hosted by our communications and engagement team, if that's the correct new name. Um, and it was for all city interns, not just Bloom in Bloomington, but some of our non-B Bloom interns as well. And then we also had a national intern day which was specifically for Bloom interns. Um, so both internal and external interns. Um, so the photos here are highlighting those. Oh, and then we also asked some of the interns to send us um photos from their locations. So Sam, the young gentleman um on the right on the first picture on um in the middle um there um he um he's a blooming blunt intern with Lark and Huffman. And then Toro, we had an high school intern at Toro and um Nigum Mo who is a college intern with our public health department also sent some of their photos of some of the things that they did over the summer. And then we had uh Sunny um one of our high schoolers health partners and then Valerie who's a young adult of Bloomington Minnesota travel and tourism. Yes. So um next year just I my or our goal is to expand the program to have at least um 30 internship spots. So that means taking advantage of our our media and communication tools and network and then continuing to also expand um the program outreach. Um I'm proud to say that this past year we got to for the first time partner with organizations like Oasis for Youth to do presentations the young people that they serve as well as well as the Bloomington Min uh Bloomington Transition Center um to also do um direct outreach there. Um in addition to what we have already been doing which is reaching out to the schools both our high schooler high schools here and Normanddale College. And I think that's it for me. So why don't we Holly I think it's if people have questions or comments it's easier to do at the end of each of these sessions. >> Go right ahead. Also Warson has to leave so we'll ask her now. >> Okay. Any questions or comments for Warson? >> Commissioner Peterson. Yeah, this is this [clears throat] should be a familiar question to the commissioners, but um one of the things when I see something like this is we're kind of in the fourth year is starting to think about how we measure the impact of the the program that we have. Because that's one of the things I think we need to really make sure that we're focusing on is for each of the things that we're doing that we're going through and saying, hey, this is working or this is something we tried and we executed well on it, but it's not doing what we want and stopping doing it. And so >> not asking you necessarily to answer that question right now, but I think you should be thinking about, you know, what's the what's the measure? What's what's the objective of the program and what's the measure that you're that you're trying to um to change and then how are you going to measure that to make that happen? >> Definitely. And yeah, I think that's a question that we're exploring as well. Um the team like how do we like you were saying um um assess program impact? I would say also that uh before and after each leadership development sessions, the interns do a pre and post survey to see make sure they're actually learning uh what we're trying to teach them. And then they also do a pre and a postp program survey. So we have that for the past two years of when they were coming into the program like have you ever had a past internship program? How do you rate your um like your level of ex um skill if you will um on the following? and they kind of like you know um assess themselves and then we do that post serve uh postp program to see how they have grown as young professionals over the summer. So we do have that data. >> Okay. Commissioner Hunting, [laughter] >> it's piggybacking on Commissioner Peterson's, do you go back to prior like several years prior now that we've got this longer track record to ask those? And then that could be how I mean really was it beneficial? Did you find how did that impact you in year three of your next venture? And then the same thing with questions posed to the employers that are bringing these on, what their comments are and so forth. and and >> their feedback positive or negative >> to make sure Commissioner Hunt I understand the question you're asking you're saying assessing the alumni to see how the program impacted we have not done that yet but I think that's one of the goal for the future and then sorry I forgot the second question oh um employers asking um their experience um when the program concludes actually starting this week and for the next few weeks I'm doing one-on-one checking with the with the supervisors But we don't have a like assessment necessarily or like um for the supervisors. Uh but we do one-on-one check in to see what their experience was like for that summer. >> Well, your best thing obviously is if the employers are repeating, they must have found some benefit of it. But I'm I'm just a huge fan for years of internship programs in general. And one of the first things I did at Supervalue, I started the tax function was put an internship program in. I mean, again, it's just a great way to get bright young people involved and help. So, other questions or comments? >> Commissioner, >> thank you. Appreciate it. Um, just a quick kind of follow up on all of that. Um, the goal is to grow the program and I'm just kind of curious as to what the strategies are and I think that checking in with the employers and talking about their positive experiences. How do we get more employers in there? You mentioned that we lost one. So, you know, can we bring three more in then based on the positive experiences that the others are having and sort of what's your strategy and what's your plan behind that? Yeah, that is a great question and again um one of the things that you know like Elon as you go um I would say for me um so like for example like you're saying like some of the current employers that we have my goal is to ask them or actually one of my questions on the checkin list is if there's any other employers that they recommend that I reach out to um and then also you utilize in our own network so like you know I might not know somebody but Kevin might um so like our own city staff and u their connections to local businesses. >> Other questions? Well, thank you. >> Thank you. >> And then Barb, >> we have next up Barb. >> Thank you, Orson. Uh good evening, port president and commissioners. I'm Barb Wolf and tonight I'll be presenting on my on behalf of myself and Priscilla on business assistance. So I'm going to touch on our programming partners. So a lot of um the outreach that we do is um available to us due to the partnerships and the collaborations that we have with others. So Hannipan County is one of our longtime partners. Uh we partner on CEO Start and CEO Start Boot Camp amongst others, but these are ones that are located here in Bloomington. Uh we did postpone CEO Start this year due to the recent immigration enforcement. So that'll be starting up here in quarter 4. Uh but we did hold uh CEO start boot camp earlier this spring. Uh we continue to partner with NextStage for technical and uh financial assistance. They also did administer our small business grant that we uh put in place earlier this year again due to recent immigration enforcement. I did present on that last month or Priscilla presented on that last month to the port board. Um here's a list of the businesses, the 25 uh locallyowned businesses that did receive funding uh through this program. Uh Zawadi Center for the second year we did partner uh there with Sigma Consulting and the Small Business Administration uh doing programming throughout the year. Business certification is actually this Saturday. Uh so Zati provides a space for us. uh Sigman Consulting um provides the the training program and we help support that program. MB mentors uh they've uh partnered with us before on um pitch training for Hatch Bloomington. Uh this year we're starting CEO roundt. So, a facilitated discussion with CEOs for sort of that peer-to-peer conversation where you um need to talk about some things that you can't talk about with your friends and family. Uh that will be starting up later this month. Uh we're still taking applications to grow this. Um we're starting with u four participants, but we would like to grow it to 12. Uh but we decided to start it anyway. Um so we are continuing to take applications there. Uh with the SBA, we also held a are you lender ready event right here in the council chambers earlier this summer as well. Uh SADB we participated in the government procurement fair for the second year in partnership with finance and sigma consulting. Um as you're well aware uh the city will be starting a new small business procurement program uh to dedicate some of those dollars that the city spends in the local small business community. So, expect more from that out of our finance department um coming in 2027, which our team will help support as well as we roll that out to our businesses to make sure that they have the capacity to apply for programming. Uh we continue to partner with the Minneapolis Regional Chamber on our quarterly business connections. This year, we hold the events at Burns McDonald in their new location over by494. Uh the next one is next week if you want to join us. Uh this year we had the immigrant entrepreneur summit. This is an annual event. It was the first time held right here in Bloomington. Um you can see that Shawn Nelson was our keynote speaker that evening. Uh and um it was a full day of workshops, panel discussions, and information tables. It was a overwhelmingly positive event. Um it was held at the Masonic Heritage Event Center. Uh we plan on partnering on that again uh next year. But this was an opportunity for us and mostly important this year as well uh to celebrate our local immigrant community. And it and it really was a celebration but also a learning event and networking event for um our participants. Uh Hatch Bloomington loves local the porta board. Uh thank you for supporting this program. It's in its third year. It was re-imagined for this year into um Hatch Bloomington loves locals supporting our existing businesses. Um thank you to your generosity. We were able to give 124,000 out to existing businesses to help support them and we had a lot of positive comments from that from our community. Uh this year coming up is our second annual business forum. Last year we also held that at the Minnesota uh Masonic Heritage Event Center. Um this year we'll be holding it in the council chambers. We do have registration open now. It is a free event again but obviously uh capacity will be more limited this year. So uh we are taking registrations now. I did want to include officers uh Desmond Daniels and Duncan in the photo. Um if for those of you that don't know uh Desmond Daniels is our liaison from the police department with our business community. He now has a community dog uh named Duncan from Dunkin Donuts. Um so uh he's available to go out to our community events and for businesses to request his presence there at their events and it's creating more of that partnership again with community and with our police department um to get more connected. additional events and programming. Um, we have an intern, Austin Wininrich, who's uh inputting information into our CRM at this time. Our site and facade improvement program, uh, we continue that this year for the third year. We only have three applications so far this year. One of the things that we did last year is making sure that as, uh, we respond to economic conditions, we can turn the levers off and on for our programming. The site and facade is one of those that we put on pause while we redirect directed the funding to Hatch and to um the uh grant program. The business retention program, that's a program that's in place for businesses that get displaced due to private redevelopment that would help them with $15,000 to um relocate within Bloomington. And then last month, uh you're updated on the uh SAC credit program and SAC deferral programs. They've been around since 2022. Uh they were updated and we also incorporated the new city sack fees into the credit program. [clears throat] And then I just want to touch on some of our ribbon cutings throughout the year. Um pictures always tell a thousand words, right? Uh so Roslin uh opening that facility. It was a multi- partnership uh to add additional affordable units into our community. Last week we did Embassy Suites. uh this location on the west side of town uh that has been here for nearly 50 years. It's under new ownership and they doubled down by a multi-million investment into our community here and it's quite beautiful. Chuck and Dons opened their second location in Bloomington. They're keeping the one on Lindale as well. Tiarara and Canata, this is a Spanish immersion school. Alloy Personal Training, that's for individual fitness. And we have two restaurants that we participated in their openings at the Mall of America this year. Uh Rony's MacBar and Jordanos. I missed out on the pizza night, so I didn't get to try it quite yet. Um and sick for their uh next phase uh celebrating that as well. And so looking ahead to the next year, we'll continue with our programming. Um we are working on additional stats that we can provide to you at the end of the year um probably into the first quarter of next year as we gather all the information. Um we do plan on partnering to bring the immigrant entrepreneur summit to Bloomington once again next year and also implementing a 2% loan program that hopefully you'll see towards the end of the year that we can start that in 2027. And any questions? questions for Barb comments. Commissioner, >> thank you. Jenna deals with this. Um, I just wanted to say about that immigrant entrepreneur summit. It was spectacular. I mean, um, you know, I came, I gave the keynote address, um, and nobody left. So, that was a positive. [laughter] Um, but I mean it was probably at least an hour after that that people were coming up and just talking to me about what they're doing, what they've been going through, how appreciative they are of what Bloomington staff is doing to help uh their businesses and um I I just think the overall theme was I people really recognized Bloomington's leadership. I mean, obviously, you know, only a small portion of them actually have businesses in Bloomington here, but a lot of eyes were opened about the opportunity here in Bloomington with them. And so, um, I strongly encourage us to continue with that. It was it was such a great event. And then all the resources that were there and, you know, I know our staff was there talking with people about how we can help them uh launch their business, grow their business, uh, be successful here. So, um, just I'm super excited to hear that we're looking at a second year and hopefully a third and fourth year. >> Thank you. >> Other questions, comments? >> Thank you. >> Thank you. [snorts] >> Hello. Good evening, commissioners. Alejandra Pelinka, director of creative placemaking, and I'll be presenting on behalf of myself and Katherine Murray, our creative placemaking specialist. So, I'll go over some brief highlights of some projects that we've completed um so far this year. One of them is selecting the artist for the Bryant Park sculpture. His name is Craig David. And you can see a design rendering on the upper right hand side um of the slide. We're also um we also have selected the artists for the Pond Dakota Mission Park sculpture which we will announce as soon as the contracting is completed. And we have a Bloomington art youth art expression initiative and that was a partnership with public health. We worked with Oasis for youth on um art therapy as a means to explore mental health and resilience. We also, if you haven't noticed, have installed a kaleidoscope garden sculpture in front of the building by RC Anderson. We are working with the Bloomington Garden Club members as volunteers to help change out the planting seasonally for that piece. And then we are working to support the Bloomington Street Arts Festival which is taking place in September at NineM Brewing and that is led by local artist Katie Ross and it will feature artist tents, food, music, and more. Within the South Loop, we have continued to work with Dakota uh Dakota cultural educator Tara Peron on the indigenous garden right next to the mural. She's working with youth to help pass on seed saving practices and harvesting indigenous medicinal plants. We also have naturefest cultivando communad which is an event that we partner with the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. It takes place at their visitor and education center. And we also have partners like we as Latinas, the Minnesota Zoo, Indigenous Roots, and others. And this is an event that really brings together the Latino community, but also just highlights how nature connects us all. So there's dances, performances, food, um, and more. And that also takes place. That's on September 12th at the Wildlife Refuge. We've also worked with parks and recreation specifically on some summer events, one of which was on the one music festival that just occurred. Um, and so the other one was a Sunday funday music series that we had to reschedule to September 20th. But these events, as we've seen, especially through especially through Placer AI data that we've been collecting on the Bloomington Central Station Park area, really bring a huge influx of people to the area, which is something that we really like to see and track. Um, so it's been exciting to see this event grow year-over-year. And then we've been finishing up some art boxes, specifically working with Excel Energy. If you recall, we were one of two pilot cities in Minneapolis in Minnesota um that Excel has allowed to paint their utility boxes. And so we put together a big list of them and we're almost at the end of painting them. And so we've got four artists that are almost done painting those boxes within the South Loop. And coming up, some things to look forward to the community health and wellness center. We are developing a request for qualifications or a call for art on mural on the two corners of the building facing 98. So it'll be a fairly large scale mural. Um we'll be looking nationally for artists to create a mural that reflects on themes like health and wellness. Um that call for art will be coming out this fall and we anticipate it'll be installed next summer um prior to the building reopening or opening next fall. Lindale Old Chaki uh the northeast corner specifically where the clock tower stands. Um this aligns with our desire to look at commercial nodes and creative placemaking. And so we're working with various other city departments to understand what an engagement plan could look like to determine what we could do with that corner and and working with the property owner in the future. We're also working on an art space feasibility study to understand what is feasible within Bloomington for artists either live or live work spaces. Um we are working with art space specifically as well the organization on that to determine that study. And then AFA's American for the arts they are helping us with an arts impact study. As you recall, the last time we did our arts impact study was in 2019, and that found that the arts and culture sector has an over 12.1 million economic impact on the city of Bloomington. So, we'd like to revisit some of those metrics and see how the arts and culture sector, especially after COVID, um where we are now. Um so, we'll be working on that arts impact study and partnering with um civic center um uh staff on that as well and our arts organizations here in Bloomington. And then we've been partnering with the parks and recreation department on Valley View Skate Park, specifically understanding how we can work with youth to develop some updated design elements at the park. And that could include maybe they're painting or doing vinyl on some of the facade pieces of the ramps and maybe um a board where they can have free graffiti art um space to practice their art. And then with the South Loop District, um we really want to see continued support of community events such as NatureFest and On the One Music Festival. We're also exploring potential site activation, specifically just south. Um there's a a lot in front of the um sick building where we could maybe think about some elements to create a small pocket park, per se, maybe some art. Um we will doing some engagement work with employees around that area and residents as well to determine what they'd like to see there. Um, we've also are coming up on a lot of artwork maintenance. As our art collection grows and starts to get older, um, including convergence sculpture, it needs new lights. It needs a little bit of cleaning. So, we are looking at all of our pieces to do some comprehensive maintenance. And then, um, last but not least, we've got our South Loop Cultural Trail. The name of it is in flux right now, but the idea of it is that we really want to create some art um that reflects on the history and the assets of South Loop and Bloomington, especially after our South Loop history report, named some really interesting uh spaces and places of history around South Loop. And if there's ways that we can activate those and encourage walking within the district through art and other means. I think that's actually my last slide if we have any questions. Thank you. >> Well, I just it's a comment I I mean I was just out at a meeting at sick and and uh just driving around South Loop now with and seeing the accumulative effect of of the various sculptures and things. It's just fun and it just makes the city so much more livable and I think we have that in other areas. So, I just I mean I think it's great we're doing this and you it gets better with time and I guess it it's good in one sense that you got to do some maintenance work on some of them because that means we've had them around a while. Questions, comments? >> I guess you >> Oh, I was just going to comment on the the programming that you guys have done is incredible. Uh got stopped at work for the on the one festival. just the the level of talent that's been brought to Bloomington for a free concert was I mean I don't know that I could say anything better about that than than just how impressed people were by it. >> Thank you. >> Okay, thank you very much. >> Thank you commissioners. >> And now Kevin. >> Yes, good evening port commissioners. So I'm Kevin Kenise, our supervisor for our real estate and development team. That includes Ryan Sberg who joined us in June as well as Alen Thorp and Luke Spawnable. And we've seen activities start to pick up here in 2026. One of the bigger projects that we are working on is Cross Anderson's redevelopment of the eastern half of Southtown. So, Selton is proposed to be a multi-phaseed redevelopment of that eastern half of the site with the first phase being a Dix of Sport and we're expecting site work or site prep work to start in fall of this year. And then uh longer term, we're looking at a vision that aligns more with the Pan-American District plan. So that is creating a space that is more urban and dense, that has buildings that front the street and has more of a grid-like pattern as well as more of a variety of uses. So not just retail, but thinking of other types of uses, whether that's hotel or apartments and things of that nature. And then we're working with KA on whether or not it looks like the city uh would bring tax increment financing support to that project and evaluating that as part of a possible future action that would come before the port authority. And uh just commenting on this picture in the bottom right. So that is sort of a 3D render of what it could look like and we expect to be sharing more here as these conversations evolve. Um, but for folks that were on the committee or the commission here in 2024, you may recall that this is quite a step up from that. So, uh, some meaningful improvement in terms of what that vision looks like. Uh, and then we continue to work with Mall of America folks. So, the waterpark project, uh, continuing to work on, um, the private financing for that project, uh, coordinating with the mall and their lenders on, um, providing the potential providing city financing for that project, as well as the master contract extension that came before the port here not too long ago. and then just general administration for Mall of America TIFF and exploring opportunities for potential red development opportunities beyond the water park. And if you look at that kind of bottom right photo there, uh there still is a good amount of land there. So thinking about what could happen in that location. And then uh housing development wise has uh we've seen that pick up a lot this year and are expecting to see more development here in the next couple of years. And uh kind of a couple highlights here. So American Square that is on the east side of town and there was a recent tiff district expansion to allow for funding to go to the conversion of Riverview office tower and that would be for affordable senior uh housing development there. And that's kind of in that bottom left photo as well as that floor plan there. And then uh Wixen Jeweler. So they closed their business and are selling that property and it is slated to be a affordable housing development. So 180 units that would be um hopefully happening in the next year or two depending on the outcome of a tax credit application. And then the Adora Apartments, not to be confused with Ardora. I know that's kind of confusing looking at the slide here. Um, very similar names. Uh, that's another tax credit project. So, that was uh proposed on city-owned land at 13th and American and that developer is also applying for competitive tax credits to fund that project. And then finally, we are working with McGuff on the next phase of Bloomington Central Station. And so that is BCS5 and that would be a market rate senior building and then thinking about what are the next phases beyond that. Uh so phase six, phase seven and phase eight. And uh beyond development, we continue to work with our partners at Greater MSP as well as the state to uh attract businesses to grow in Bloomington or um to relocate here if they're looking at relocating to the state of Minnesota as well as tracking uh changes in industries and using various tools to do that. So Alejandra mentioned placeer AI and using that to track visitation in Bloomington central station. Our staff is also working with community development as a whole to look at our land disposition procedures for city- owned land. So that includes port, hay, and city itself own land and reviewing our procedures against uh city ordinances and code and what current market conditions are so that we could potentially position those properties for productive use uh to allow for opportunities to grow the tax base and then uh also working with the county to ensure that the city continues to have opportunity zones over the next 10 years. So, the South Loop was an opportunity zone and now over this next 10-year cycle, we're looking at three other census tracks that are potentially opportunity zones here. And then finally, uh, we continue to build out our commercial node strategies. So, that includes engaging with businesses within the commercial node. So Austin, the intern with our business assistance team is really uh doing the heavy weight of lifting there and serving them about what their needs and what city programming really would help them be successful or help new businesses that are trying to expand in our community to do so. Uh we'll plan to engage with the real estate brokerage community by having another real estate broker breakfast here in late October. And then uh finally rounding out our work um we've been doing engagement around our opportunity housing ordinance. So there was that five body concurrent meeting that happened in March and then we're planning on bringing recommendations for a change to that ordinance here later this year. And with that I think that concludes my slides. >> Thank you. Questions for Kevin? Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. Good evening, president and commissioners. I'm taking over the mic for the rest of the night. So briefly in 2026 I honestly was out half the year but [laughter] some of the things that we did work on were from 25 and into 2026. One thing to be to note is our economic development strategic plan which we approved last year is now getting pulled into the city's 2050 comprehensive plan process. They are going to have an economic development chapter in this land use plan for the very first time. And so we'll be working so that we're not um so that we are using the work that we've already done on the EDSP or the economic development plan to incorporate that into the chapter. We'll avoid duplication. We'll make sure that's very efficiently done. If there is interest and engagement from the Port Authority Commission, we would love to talk to you about that process. We also have the Bloomington Economic Partnership and CEO Summit that we've been working on. The economic partnership is a group that meets quarterly that has representatives from our large employers, our educational institutions as well as um some of our economic development and workforce development partners. We've now synced that up with our economic development strategic plan as well and have taken on different topics each quarter. In late 2025, we did marketing Bloomington for business and talent with some of our partners and we also looked at mapping the workforce development landscape. In 2026, in the first half of the year, there was discussion of inclusion in the workplace and the 2050 comprehensive plan. And then in the fall, we'll be taking on local and small business purchasing both from the supply side and the demand side because we will have representatives from both. And then we'll be talking about child care in the last quarter of the year. The CEO summit is a group that convenes with our some of our CEOs from our larger companies. Usually it's about the 20 largest employers by staff here in Bloomington. Not everyone is headquartered here. Um this was an initiative of the mayor. Actually both of these were and that has proved popular enough that something that we tried as a one time once a year experiment is now meeting quarterly at these different um employers and headquarters that does not have a particular theme each time we allow them to have free flowing conversation with each other and it is definitely proved to pay dividends in growing relationships with our large employers in the area. Partnership growth I think you'll see the same names in a lot of our slides. We are all working with the state, the department of employment and economic development and greater MSP on really making sure that we are helping out with large business relocations here, expansions here, making sure that the state is doing what they can to assist with these growth opportunities as well. And then communications. Um we will be working with communications department to do some more marketing around economic development and marketing the city for business and talent. 2027 we'll be looking at that 2050 comprehensive plan um that is completely run by planning but we have our own part to play in writing our chapter. I will be supporting staff on key projects doing business retention often with the mayor. Thank you for all the time you have spent visiting different businesses with us. Um we will be engaging in another regional effort that's coming through Greater MSP. Um you may recall conversation about the chips coalition that was to help secure federal funds for the region for um semiconductor industry. They've expanded that to micro electronics. This is the next phase of that conversation. And now they're bringing in some of our biotechnology employers and other types of high-tech manufacturing. And so we'll be engaging in that conversation. How can we grow jobs here? How can we recruit workforce here? We engage in legislative advocacy as needed. 26 was a quieter year. 25 was a very busy year. We will see as we go through the fall what we will be working on in 2027. And then continuing on administrative improvements. As always, we have grown very fast. We have 11 staff now and a number of programs. And so, we're working to make sure that behind the scenes everything is wellrun. And we're looking at budget refinement always as well with this quick growth. We had a quick change in our budget over the last few years and we'll get into that a bit more in our next presentation. Any questions? >> Questions for Hie? Keep going. All right. And I would just that concludes this presentation, but I want to take a moment to thank everyone behind me here, Kevin and Barb and Olly and Moritt and Mary Kay who do all the work that you saw presented in the slides and Warson as well who has stepped away um for the evening. So thank you to all of you. >> Okay, >> sorry I delayed in asking my question. Apologize Kevin. I actually have questions on we um and I don't mean these to be as negative as they might be but recently there's been two articles written one with regards to Minneapolis St. Paul is the worst commercial market in the country or something along those lines and there's a um ongoing reporting with regards to the use of tiff projects. Can you provide us some insight into that and some background and um and I did notice and I appreciate that our comm's team was probably engaged in that and we had uh some positive talk in in those article or at least one of them about Bloomington and we're not Minneapolis. >> Quick question commercial. What does commercial market mean? You mean business market to do business? >> Uh uh office space but it yeah buildings the actual real estate >> construction. No existing I think is is my understanding from reading the article. >> Yes. Uh >> I didn't see the article. So >> okay. Yeah. >> Port commissioners um port president and council member Nelson. Uh so the article that was mentioned was referring to uh CNBS loans in particular. So um kind of a a smaller subset of the market itself. the metropolitan region per that article has about four billion which sounds like a lot but um a small shift in that can kind of have a pretty large impact. So we are doing a little bit more digging into um understanding exactly what that data is. My understanding is it's not a full snapshot of really what the market looks like. There certainly are concerns that we're evaluating. Um but I I get the sense that because of that snapshot that it makes our municipality and our region look worse in comparison. Um but would be happy to kind of take that question back and bring some additional data uh to back that up. Um and I know that um our city assesstor Tim Bulier also responded to that as well that um Minneapolis for example has seen a larger loss in terms of the value in their downtown core. Bloomington while yes has had reductions not at that same level. So the community has been more stable in terms of its values. It is something we continue to evaluate and um meet and talk about frequently and if it's helpful would be happy to come back with a presentation on that. >> At least from my perspective that that's enough for me because you know I track that and we look at that in our budgets in the council. Not only that, but you know, obviously our leisure and hospitality industry. We're constantly looking at that. And you know, I think that um everyone recognizes that there were hardships in office space when nobody went to work, you know, so we get it. But uh Bloomington has weathered that storm, has I mean uh really uh come back and and is is from everything else I saw is is growing and expanding. So, I just wanted to make sure because I see alternative stories. I see that story repeated out there in the community and just wanted to make sure people understood what the what the actual facts are is. Yeah. I mean, there's impact. No one's denying that. Um, but it's not as dire as I think some people are attempting to make it sound. And so, um, and the, you know, the TIFF article or series, um, I think is maybe just something to look at more as we go forward. Um because I I've raised concerns about that too. I mean housing especially those multif family projects are extraordinarily expensive per unit and you know it costs it to support those but I mean the alternatives let dirt just sit there and do nothing. So um you got to balance those things and make those decisions. So if I could figure out if I could tell you how to build it super cheap I would. Actually I wouldn't. I'd just go and do it. [laughter] So but but I haven't figured it out yet. So, I just want to give the opportunity to reflect on that and and let the community know that that Bloomington is doing well. There's obviously have been some concerns and uh but we're working through them extremely well. So, thank you. >> Yeah. And if you don't mind me providing a little bit of context for your your TIFF comment as well. Um so, the developments that we shared on the slide and I would go back to it probably would take me longer than this explanation. Uh part of the reason that those developments take so long and I think you all know this but for community members is uh that we are ensuring that they're doing their due diligence. We're verifying the information uh reviewing their proforma and making sure that their ask is reasonable and that uh we're checking those costs and then that we're also uh ensuring that they're utilizing the variety of sources that are out there that are not just city sources. And so that is why some of those projects are going for applications for tax credits, for example, to attract private investment through that tax credit program. So that that reduces the amount of city assistance that would be required to bring those affordable units onto the market. Um, and so that's why that those projects take as long as they do is that's one part of the puzzle in order to make that capital stack really work. And so um we continue to do that work here as our team on the port. So thank you. >> Hi. >> Yes. That concludes this portion of the meeting and we'll move over to the budget presentation now and I'd like to invite up Mary Kay Heinen the treasury manager for the city who also serves as the port accountant in her free time. Thank you. >> Welcome Mary Kay. >> Thank you. All right. So, this evening we'll be talking about the 27 through 28 preliminary levy and budget. And yes, this is now a two-year budget cycle. And Mary Kay will address that a little further in our presentation. A quick timeline for you. Um, most of you know this, but some of you are newer. Um, the port has undergone significant changes in a very short amount of time. In 2022, there was an HA assessment completed that indicated that the port should go citywide and take on greater economic development and real estate development work. In order to do that and expand the geography in 2023 and 2024, the port needed to impose a levy, which it did not have before. Alongside the levy, as a point of responsibility, the port also began a five-year strategic plan process to outline the economic development work that we would do in 2024. As well, the creative placemaking team also looked at expanding from just the South Loop area to citywide work. Um, we did this somewhat in parallel and so the creative placemaking team also underwent a strategic planning process and it was indicated that a piece of the ports levy would support that citywide c creative placemaking work. So we have now completed our plans. We have updated our mission for the port authority and over the last year we have really worked to recalibrate the way our budgeting is done. We have [clears throat] two sources of funds. We have the levy and then we have the South Loop special revenue fund which is liquor and lodging taxes that are dedicated to just being used in the South Loop area. We had to do some name switching in order to make those things work but now the general fund is a levy. South Loop special revenue fund is that fund that can only be used in the South Loop area. And then this year in 2026, the city started a two-year budget cycle process which I will actually ask Mary Kay to speak to. Yeah. Um so this evening we'll be looking at the 2027 and the 2028 budget which we will be asking you to approve and we will be approving the 2027 levy. Um the reason the city is moving to a two-year levy or two-year budgeting process is there's a lot of administrative time that goes into preparing the budget. So the thought process is we'll prepare the budget for two years this year and then next year we can focus on more strategic management looking at performance metrics and seeing what we need to adjust to match the community needs. >> So Holly I think it's a good idea this is these are preliminary budgets and then you come back again in what October November with essentially the final budget or something. So we get a couple shots at looking at this I guess is the point. >> That is correct. President Ericson and commissioners. We'll have a final slide that breaks down the timeline again. But as a refresher, we come here for our preliminary budget that is 27 and 28 this year and the preliminary levy for 2027 only. We will take this to city council in September and they'll have the opportunity to approve that preliminary levy. they will they receive the budget but they do not need to approve it at that time. We then file that with the county and then we'll come back again later in the year November to December and we will do the process for the final budget and levy. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. And then one more thing I did want to point out that the city launched a priority based budgeting process as well last year that does not impact our the budget process that we will be doing here. that is more about understanding how our different departments and functionalities are breaking down our budgets towards the work that we do. So, we'll talk about the categories of the priority based budget, but that is not something that you will be voting on at any point. A quick reminder of the 2025 economic development strategic plan. We have our work areas here, but these are the areas of focus. Traded sectors, working with our large employers, small business, innovation, which can also mean entrepreneurship, thriving places, which can mean creative placemaking, real estate and infrastructure, talent attraction and retention, wraparound services, what can which can touch everything from transportation to housing and child care, and then marketing and events. Our mission we just touched on again, but we have as staff concluded that we need to bring this to the port more often. The Port Authority con cultivates community prosperity and quality development through bold vision and responsible public investments. We contribute to the growth and success of Bloomington's inclusive and resilient economy. Our work areas are business assistance, creative placemaking, workforce development, and real estate development. and our budgeting principles for 2027 and 2028 are very similar to what we did in 2026. We across the team leverage partners to provide financial and technical assistance to expand the capacity of what we can do. We work with partners like Next Stage to help us with grant programs. We apply for grant funds as well from Henipin County, the Department of Employment and Economic Development, Met Council and others. We approach business assistance grants and loans with flexibility so we can be responsive to community need. An example of that was we had our 570,000 set aside this year for grants and loans. We had federal immigration actions and so we moved some funds that we were planning for a different program over to serve that program and you've given us that flexibility and it has worked very well. And then the third is to remain open to refining our budget by actual use of the general fund and the South Loop special revenue fund and our TIFF funds. The market fluctuates the work that we are doing changes from happening in South Loop where we can spend certain kinds of funds to happening in the rest of the city. And so you may see us come back for budget adjustments um particularly for the way that staff time is utilized depending on where we can pay the staff time out of. And now I will hand this over to Mary Kay to go through the budget numbers. Okay. Um the port has two budgeted funds. Their general fund which is the levy and then the south loop special revenue fund. So, we'll take a look at them combined and then we'll go into a little bit more detail looking at the funds separately. Um, and as you can see, we have the 27 and the 28 budgets. So, we'll look at 2026 versus 2027 first. Um, for property tax revenue, we're requesting an increase of 150,000. Um, going from 2.9 million to 3,50,000, which is just over a 5% increase. Um the intergovernmental revenue is a grant from deed for the bloom intern program. The investment earnings as we built up a reserve in the general fund. The fund is starting to earn some interest. Um so interest is budgeted at 30,500. The other revenue is the transfer from the city south loop fund and you can see that decreased quite a bit from 560,000 to 250,000 a drop of 55%. Um, and that is due to changing where we're budgeting some of the salary costs. So, we'll look at that in a little bit more detail on in the next slides. Um, if you look at salaries and benefits, um, it's going from 1.3 million to almost 1.4 million, which is $91,000 increase or 7%. Um, I will say overall for the port, salaries are going up 4%. This does not include salaries allocated to the tiff funds um just based on our past experience um we were overbudgeting what would get charged to the tiff fund so we had to move some of that to the general fund. So overall salaries are going up 4% but in the two budgeted funds they're going up 7%. Um material supplies and services are almost flat completely. They're only going up 3,684 less than one quarter of 1%. Um the internal charges are calculated by finance for space and occupancy IT mail room. Um and that went up 4% um from 232,000 to 242. And then overall when we look from 27 to 28 um once again the increase in property taxes is 150,000 which is around 5% again. Um the deed grant ends in 2027 so that falls off the 28 budget and then we have the investment earnings and the transfer from the city. Um salary and benefits goes up 4% that's calculated by the budget office and finance. Um, so that's an 4% increase. And material supplies went up about 7,000 and internal charges went up 4%. So nothing too drastic from 27 to 28. And Holly, I think when we we have that slide up there, we have more revenue than expenditures. And and what you have been attempting to do is to develop some a fund that we can have some discretion over in case some major project or something comes up. >> That's correct, President Ericson and commissioners. We have been doing that intentionally. The first two years, we had two objectives. One was to build up operating reserves. The port did not have any. this is a new fund. And then the second has been to build up a strategic acquisitions fund. So if an opportunity does come up where the port would like to purchase land or get involved in a development project, we would have those funds available to do. This is a common strategy for port authorities. >> Thank you. >> Okay. And then if we look at the general fund um once again this has the property tax revenue um which is going up 5% each year the intergovernmental grant from deed for the bloom program and the investment earnings. Um where there is a significant change is if you look at the salaries and benefits um the budget for 2026 was 872 um compared to 1.23 million.23 million for 2027. So the salaries in the general fund is going up 41% and that's based on how staff are actually able to allocate their time. Um not as much time is being allocated to the South Loop or TIFF funds and more time is being spent on citywide activities. Um and so the 2027 and the 2028 budget reflects how staff is actually spending their time. Um material supplies and services actually went down 14,000. um we were able to drop some of the professional service expenses and then the internal charges once again um calculated by the budget office and they went up about 4% from 2026 to 2027. Um so overall the variance between the revenue and expenses is about 159,000 and that is what would get added to the reserve for any strategic acquisitions for 2027. Um, and then when we look at 2027 versus 2028, the levy goes up 150,000 again, which is about 5%. Um, and then the deed grant ends, investment earnings about 30,000. Um, salaries go up about 4% from 2027 to 2028, which is once again calculated by the budget office. And then there's a slight increase in material supplies and services which reflects about an additional 7,000 for creative placemaking and then a small increase in the expected audit fees. Um so overall in 2028 um the revenue versus expenses is 196,68 and that is what would get added to the reserves in 2028. If we look at the South Loop Fund, um you can see the revenues, which is a transfer from the city, basically goes from 560,000 in 2026 down to 250,000 in 2027, which is a drop of 55%. And that's because of the salaries and benefit line item. You can see we had budget of 431,000 for 2026. Based on actuals um year-to date, we're estimating that the 2027 salaries would only be about 164,400. Um and that's the reason the transfers from the cities would drop since we didn't have the expenses. Um material supplies and services went up about 17,800 compared to 2026. Um and that's due to the allocation of the membership fee for a greater MSP. um that wasn't budgeted in the 2026 budget in the South Loop. Um but in 2027 um the greater MSP is getting split between South Loop and general fund. Um the internal charges went down quite a bit. Um basically because they kind of follow the salaries. Um, so when salaries got reallocated, so did the internal charges. And so internal charges went from 85,601 down to about 30,000. Um, which is a 65% decrease. Um, and so the South Loop fund pretty much generally we try to break even. Um, we really don't need too much of a reserve in this fund. And then if we compare 27 to 28, the revenues went up slightly due to budgeted increases in payroll and internal charges. So the transfer from the city goes up 10,000. Um and then the salaries went up 4%, materials went up a little bit for the estimated increase in audit fees, and then internal charges went up 3%. Um, thank you. >> One one thing I think, Holly, that would be helpful is this is an aggregated budget and you you have what, four departments you had presented. Mhm. >> I think would be helpful to us if we just saw what the expenditures were kind of by the department level on a multi-year basis >> because it helps us to see where we're shifting resources within and what's been growing and and now we're we've had this for several years. So the numbers would be meaningful. So if you could do that that would be great. >> Yes, we would be happy to do that and I will speak to that a little bit here and we can break it into greater detail when we come back for good. Okay. So, one thing that we wanted to note was that the staff is remaining pretty level. Um, a few minor changes. So, the full-time staff are the same. We are looking to actually reduce a little bit of the staff time that we take from the city attorney's office as we're now outsourcing a lot of our legal work. So, we're going down from 1.75 under administrative support, finance, and legal to 1.65. So, a slight reduction there. We are considering using a greater amount of intern time next year. So um we may change that slightly in the budget. Um we have found them to be very helpful with our special projects and there is a lot of talented young there are many talented young people out there that are interested in economic development. So that's been um exciting to work with and we've tried to extend a few interns. This is the list of priority based CA budgeting categories. I mentioned that the city is working towards trying to budget a little bit more toward by program and show you that type of budgeting. And so when we come back, this is probably how you'll see the budget split up. We did this for you last year, right? It'll be divided into development and redevelopment assistance, small business and entrepreneurship, business retention, expansion and attraction, Bloom and Bloomington and workforce development, creative placemaking and board administration. It's pretty closely aligned with the way that our work groups are split out. It's just slightly different with that BRE work split out separately getting into just so you can see some of the strategic investments that we make within this budget. Um, and I want to frame this up with we are keeping these numbers pretty flat. 26 27 to 28. In fact, there are some reductions from 26 to 27. Um, we're trying to be sensitive to that. Um, where you're seeing the increases are unavoidable places in the budget, places where we just see costs rising. So for small business and entrepreneurship, we have a h 100,000 in general programming and then that same 570,000 amount for direct business assistance. This all goes straight back into the business community. And this is the fund we try to keep very flexible. Even though we have a plan for what we'll do for the year, we don't necessarily know what the economy is going to do. And so we try to be pretty flexible with this fund in Bloom and Bloomington. This is a relatively inexpensive program to run. It costs about $20,000 outside of the staff time for programming and contracted services. We were able to bring in a grant that defayed that cost as well as some of the staff time costs. We are unsure if we will have that grant again pass this coming year. So, um we're budgeting without that grant for 28. Correct. But it will be in the budget for 27 for creative placemaking. This is one area where we are planning to increase the budget 3% year-over-year. This transfer comes from the Port Authority levy to the creative placemaking fund. This helps to cover their or pay for their projects in the remainder of the city outside of South Loop. So, um we actually expect to see significantly more demand in this area and I think this is something we may have to explore in the future. And then for real estate and development, their strategic investments include 180,000 for development related studies, 180,000 for pre-development costs and development assistance, and then that overage of 159,000 to build a strategic acquisitions fund. There are also project specific expenses that are paid out of tiff administration accounts that are not reflected in the budget that you saw and there is great variation and when those occur and how those occur during the year. And then for business retention, some of the strategic investments there include $50,000 towards marketing and then another $80,000 in administrative funds. And this can cover um more direct marketing like we'll be doing with communications. It might cover um travel or experiences, trade shows or engagements with deed. And this we referenced in the beginning, but this is a sixstep sequence that we are working through. This is step one today where you will approve the preliminary budget for two years and then the prel pre preliminary levy. So you'll have three motions tonight. September 14th, the levy goes to council. Preliminary levy goes to council. At the end of September, we file with Henipin County alongside the H and the city. We'll be back in November with our final le final levy and budget approval. And then we'll go to council with our final levy request and then file that with Henipin County. These are the motions. There are three this year. If you have any questions about any part of the budget before we move to the motions, Mary Kay and I are happy to answer them. >> Port 30 questions. Commissioner. >> Thank you, President. Uh just a few questions here. Um currently, how much do we have in the reserves or that strategic acquisition fund? um as of the end of July um 1.9 million 1,952,000. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I will just note um the only revenue in that fund is the tax levby which we only get twice a year in July and December. So we do need outside of the strategic acquisition we need working capital balance also. So that also includes the any working capital balance >> that includes the working capital. >> Yeah. Okay. Um, second question. Uh, so the change in the payroll and where they go from South Loop to the general fund and the other fund, um, can you just clarify for me what if any impact that has on the levy amount? >> Um, the more they have to charge to the general fund for citywide activities, that is using levy money. um the levy went up about 5% but that means we're adding less to the strategic acquisition fund and so um yeah so if we were quoting more to the tiff funds or south loop we would be able to increase the strategic acquisition fund faster since we're quoting more salaries to citywide we're just not building it as fast as we would otherwise >> we're trying to um President Ericson commissioner Nelson and commissioners We are trying to keep the levy at a fairly steady pace at this point and rather than bring it up to handle the increased salary costs, we are reducing what we are able to save over the next few years. >> Um, and just strictly from a financial standpoint, I'm sure there's other reasons to make changes, but you you indicated that we're outsourcing legal instead of using our own legal staff here. Is there a positive financial to that or are we spending more money to outsources but we're getting better service or quicker or how how is that shaken out? I guess >> that's an excellent question. I'll let Mary Kay answer about the financial impact. But I will say part of what was happening was we were overburdening our internal legal staff with the questions that we had and the pace at which we wanted them answered. And so collectively the group decided that it would be better to outsource our general counsel services to an external council. We are still working with the city attorney's office for special counsel. So you will still see um city attorney Mandershide at some of our port meetings in the future. >> Um yeah, I would just say it's new this year, so we don't have like a full year of actual expenses for the outsource legal. Um but based on the invoices so far um it probably would be an increase to the budget um >> compared to using the internal >> a little bit more but because we're overburdening our already stressed accounting or not accounting accounting staff too but attorneys legal staff um and we hear about that on the you know at the council level as well about the stresses that they're going in that they're running into. So I just want to make sure I understood that. So, thank you for the clarification and I appreciate the effort to move things forward because particularly in development >> that can make or break a deal that time frame. So, >> Commissioner Lents. >> Okay, other questions, comments. >> Well, I think if there's no other questions or comments, then I we're ready for motions. So, I would >> actually if I could have just one one moment if I could, Mr. President. So just for for the benefit of the rest of the the commission here, uh so the the council will adopt our preliminary levy on September 14th and that this will be part of that. So once we have this piece of the puzzle and then the city's proposed levy, which right now is in the working documents is somewhere between 6 and a half and 7% is the proposed levy increase. Uh we that will go forward as our proposed levy on September 14th. That's mandated by law. You got to have that done. law also says you can't go higher than that then. So the city the proposed levy can come down and I know there are some council members here who understand that and know that very clearly. Uh it can come down but it can't go up and that would be the case with the the port levy as well and then the final levy will be adopted se December mid December 13th or 14th I believe somewhere in there. So >> did you say seven and a half's the max? >> December >> that that's right now the working number. We don't have a set number right now. It's between 6 and a half and 7% 7 and a half% is the is what we would move forward with our proposed levy and then that would be the max. >> Where is that from generated from >> that? I'm talking at the city level here. This is our property tax. Yes, >> that's self-imposed >> that that is the city levy but the port levy will be part of that action as well. >> Okay, other questions, comments? If not, I would we've got three different motions we need to vote on. So, I would entertain the first motion on page seven. >> Commissioner LZ makes the motion. >> Second. >> We need to read it or not. I I guess the commissioner LZ made a motion seconded by Commissioner Busy to adopt resolution number BPA whatever resolution adopting the 2027 Port Authority preliminary general fund budget and preliminary South Loop special revenue fund budget. Uh all in favor please signify by saying I opposed. Motion carries 70. On to motion number two. >> Mr. President, I would move that we adopt a resolution adopting the 2028 port authority preliminary general fund budget and preliminary selfloop special revenue fund budget. >> Second motion made and seconded. Any further discussion? Not all in favor please signify by saying I. I >> opposed. Motion carries 70. And finally, the third, Commissioner Peterson. >> Thank you, Mr. President. I move that we adopt a resolution approving preliminary proposed levy for the year 2027 pursuant to Minnesota statutes section 469.053, subdivision 4 and 275.065 by the Port Authority of the City of Bloomington. >> Second. >> Who should I give the second to? I guess Commissioner Hunt. [laughter] All right, we have a motion made and seconded. Any further discussion? If not, all in favor, please signify by saying I. I opposed. Motion carries 70. So, thank you, >> Holly. You've got some administrator updates and thank you, Mary Kay. President and commissioners, I left them up here. I would have just stayed there. All right. So, they are brief. One is there is a board and commission connect September 21st, 6 to 8:00 p.m. This is an opportunity for all members of boards and commissions to meet each other and network. I will remind you again at our next meeting, but by that point, it'll be maybe two days from then. So, I just wanted to make sure you knew about it. Now, in case you want to go, >> what's the date? >> It is September 21st from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. I am not sure of the room, but I can confirm that and email it to you all. And then the second is we will be recruiting for two commission seats this fall. And as part of that process, the team running the recruitment has asked for a photo of this illustrious board. And so I'm asking you please not to run off after this meeting. Um and allow us to take a photograph. [laughter] Thank you. >> Um it will only take a minute. I promise. >> All right. >> I would have worn my >> Oh, [laughter] okay. My kid has some ashkosh bag. >> Oh, yeah. >> Okay. Any any other things to come before the port authority? Not the meeting is adjourned and we'll post for our pictures. >> Thank you.